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April 22, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – The Movers Arrive, on Earth Day
Don’t want to tell you what we have ahead in terms of chores (esp setting up new WiFi), but can tell you, as per the top pic, we earned our keep today on Earth Day, moving within the trees 😊 💕 🌳
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April 20, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Our 1st Peek of Our New Abode
Tomorrow I’ll try and have some interior shots I took before our car load of boxes came in; another similar round of car loads tomorrow, then the “big” movers come Thursday; but right now, 5 min til 8pm, we’re very hopeful, and we’re calling it a day, quite a day ♥️
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April 18, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Stragglers Needing Packing
“I have most my images, prints and originals, paper/canvas/panels, mostly packed now…Somehow I’ve ended up with several stragglers, lol!”
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April 09, 2021 – Volleyball Blocker Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
Quick post to let folks know the 3rd of my seven Volleyball theme posters, Volleyball Blocker, is now available on Fine Art America as both prints and gift items!
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April 08, 2021 – Volleyball Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
After only having Volleyball Setter Poster available for a long time, I’ve finally begun uploading my full Volleyball sports poetry series, beginning with Volleyball Poster, onto Fine Art America! Additional Volleyball titles….
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March 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Volleyball Setter”
Volleyball setter is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America! 😊
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March 20, 2021 – Happy 1st Day of Spring! I Slept Late, Fed the Birds ( or Did They Feed Me? ), Pandemic Lunch with a Friend, Visited Family, oh, and Painted!
The Time Change and my wife and I have not started speaking yet. We don’t like the time change thing. And it’s not which 1/2 year version we prefer; no, just pick one….
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March 11, 2021 – Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 26 – Rock Point North View, Uploaded 04.17.16
this stretch of blue beauty very near to where my wife grew up in Burlington was there, smiling, waiting for me to accept the fact it’s there. Calm. Reflective, variegated. And blessed with interest from foreground to background.
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February 28, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolor, “Charcoal Mountain”
Using one of Arteza’s black brush pens, it shows the pen’s exceptional ability to lay down thick and wash pigment (see image below). The thick nicely textured Canson XL watercolor paper of course helps too 😊
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February 14, 2021 – The Weather in Austin May Affect My Posting, Just Not Sure How Yet 😏
Temperatures here in Austin are predicted to drop and stay around the temps Sheila and I experience in ’89 when we moved here from Galveston, ie, mid to low single digits. Records in this area going back to the 1800s put that at #4 on the all time lows list!
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 25 – Festival Night Land and Shore, Uploaded 04.16.16
“This view, this scene of celebratory calmness amid nature, is an enduring memory of many moments over many years of visiting and living in my wife’s home state 💕 Fuzziness and all 😊 ”
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February 03, 2021 – Glimpses of Valentine Red in Austin
“A surprise sunrise yesterday, Tuesday morning, in Austin. If Sheila hadn’t alerted me I’d missed the whole thing, lol!”
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February 02, 2021 – Tweets That Caught My Eye on Twitter – Valentyna Holloway @ValentyneDreams #PianistPoet
“Valentyna tweets a wide variety of intriguing to interesting tweets – and yes, I did consciously choose to list intriguing as overriding interesting…intrigue, in this case, creating the interest.
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February 01, 2021 – Glimpses of Spring Before the Freeze Next Week
“Temps are supposed to possibly drop into some hard freezes this coming week, but this little guy, and a slew of others evidently with him (not shown), are sure glad to gulp down the water and chow – I don’t blame them! ❤️ ”
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January 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Images This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolors, Austin and Paris
Newer work almost always has a nice jump on the most viewed count among my images on Fine Art America, but it’s especially nice both my newest watercolors not only topped the list this past week, but with resoundingly good numbers 🙏 On top of that, like a reminder cushion, two of my oldest uploads,…
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January 22, 2021 – Tweets That Caught My Eye on Twitter – Jo Coyne @Jopolkadot #Inspirations via the Arts and Nature
Jo has long been an inspiration of surprises for me on Twitter. Partly, probably, because she shares from all the arts, plus so many grand and nuanced thinkers, plus, includes such interesting imagery 💕
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January 21, 2021 – Inauguration Day, The Day After – An Energy’s Been Unleashed!
“I couldn’t decide what I’d write today!…And there can only be one reason – other than we’re one day closer to Valentines Day, my wife’s fav ❤️ — A new day has risen for America! For all of us who want it.”
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January 16, 2021 – My Three Most Popular Posts the 1st Half of January – Volleyball Setter Back in Stock (my original 1994 sports writing), Arteza and Richard Bernabe (November 2020 most popular posts report), and Margaret Hall (Sketching Outside in Winter with Watercolour)
My 2021 blog posts are already showing their hand, with the arts (poetry, photography, painting) being the big draws, each post with their own subject matter to the artist or poet 😊
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January 14, 2021 – Grande Roue de Paris Night, Photography circa 2012, Adan’s PhotoPoems
Grande Roue de Paris Night, Photography – Adan’s PhotoPoems, “Reaching into the heights of night….”
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January 13, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 5 – (Non-Professional) Challenges Photographing Painting Nuances
Yesterday I posted a couple of my watercolor renditions of my mini-Monet’s Garden series of posts, but was immediately unhappy with how one of the two appeared on screen.
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January 12, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 4 – Learning Lessons Doing Repetition Variations
Previously, in Part 3 of this mini series, I showcased my 1st watercolor (seen below) keyed off an original oil of 2001, itself keyed off an original photo of the same year.
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January 01.11.21 Austin The Day After the Snow – and – a New Personal Walking Steps Record!
Yesterday Austin broke the record for both amount of rain (am) and amount of snow (pm) in one day. Today, as per my (for now) secret location shot near downtown Austin near lunchtime, Austin is back to its winter grey-green self, minus a lot of traffic that stayed home, lol!
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January 08, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 3 – Painting Through Political Stress
Third of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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January 05, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 2
Second of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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January 04, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 1
First of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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Adan’s One Line PhotoPoems – Vermont Marshland Sunset From The Island Line Trail Panorama
“I know, vividly remembering that September morning a few years ago, in a field just outside Burlington, Vermont, having arrived and waited in pitch dark….”
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My Five Most Popular Posts in 2020 – Art (Arteza), Fitness (SilverSneakers), Photography (Richard Bernabe), Brokenwood Mysteries (AcornTV), Poetry (Aging Gracefully)
They’ve stood strong for the year, with posts dating from earlier in the year to very recently and I’m very grateful for that ❤️
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Adan’s One Line PhotoPoems – Mount Mansfield September Sunrise One (of 7 in series)
“I know, vividly remembering that September morning a few years ago, in a field just outside Burlington, Vermont, having arrived and waited in pitch dark….”
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Small Welcome Sales Plus Interest in New Watercolors Continue at Buda Mercantile! Mid December 2020
“What was surprising was the response to the display of my new 5×7 watercolor on absorbent ground….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 24 – Dusk Begins to Sleep (Vermont) , Uploaded 04.16.16
“… this moment to moment change in the light at dusk and dawn is one of our world’s daily treasures….”
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Prints Sold! At Buda Mercantile! Early December 2020
What started with a surprise print sale at Buda Mercantile recently turned into a safe-distancing, masked opportunity to both paint on the spot and sell a couple more prints this past Saturday!
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 23 – Sunset Dock (Vermont) , Uploaded 04.15.16
“This begins a nice series of shots I took in Vermont various times my wife and I’ve been there. I love visiting her home state….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 22 – Room in the Sky , Uploaded 04.13.16
Analogous to #20 Lit Like Stained Glass in my Fine Art America images, Room in the Sky is nevertheless a more distinct night shot, probably captured the same night on our way back from an evening at Art Hop in Vermont.“
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Tweets That Caught My Eye on Twitter – Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto #photography
“Choosing to feature Richard Bernabe’s photo work, art really 😊, was easy, but choosing which tweet with which image, well….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 21 – Bridge into the Night , Uploaded 04.13.16
“Poignant, besides striking in its austere midnight beauty, Bridge into the Night is a capture of the first night – New Year’s Eve 2012 – Sheila and I’d been back to Austin in over three years.“
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 20 – Lit Like Stained Glass , Uploaded 04.13.16
“Burlington, my wife’s home town in Vermont, is a very walkable city, and summers and early fall we’d often walk back at night from festivals and such….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 19 – Sunset West of Myers Bagels , Uploaded 04.10.16
“Vermont’s impact on my art, fiction, and desire to be fit has been welcomingly outsized for both it’s size and the amount of time I’ve been able to spend there. And if not for my wife being from Vermont, I may well have never visited and quickly learned to love its land and people.”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 18 – Blue Bird in Winter Tree , Uploaded 04.07.16
“For being one of our country’s smallest states, it’s been an unending reservoir of gorgeous images and vistas for me, every since I first visited it in the early 80s, going with my wife to see her home state!“
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 17 – Vermont Sunset, Lake Champlain, Uploaded 03.28.16
“For being one of our country’s smallest states, it’s been an unending reservoir of gorgeous images and vistas for me, every since I first visited it in the early 80s, going with my wife to see her home state!“
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 14 – Soft Winter Day, Digital Art circa 2016
“This digital variation of a 2012 winter scene in Vermont is from Waterfront Park, situated along side Lake Champlain.”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 13 – Light Between the Trees, Digital Art circa 2016
“This digital variation of a 2012 winter scene in Vermont is from Ethan Allen park, located a few blocks from where my wife grew up.”
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Aging Gracefully During Covid-19 : Approaching 70 – Why It Feels Like the Speed Limit, lol!
“Doubts about whether 70 would actually be that major a marker for me, in terms of how hard and how far to push myself, held me back from developing thIs post though, until today!“
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My Art and Photography are in Good Company at Fine Art America!
“Just a short post with some links for a special promotion Fine Art America has created for artists and photographers selling their work on the FAA site.”
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Milestone @FineArtAmerica July 2020 – 1,000,000 Views of My Art and Photography!
I can only humbly say – Thank you! – to everyone who’s stopped by, sometimes commenting, and enjoyed viewing my work! Plus a special gratefulness to all my buyers and licensing agents since my joining Fine Art America and posting my art and photography in early 2016! Please continue to enjoy visiting, please continue to…
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Bastille Day 2020! 🇫🇷 With Memories of Paris 2012
Sheila and I eventually took the same bus back we’d taken to the Bastille monument, back to our tiny upper floor loft in a nice apartment building, rented through an early European version of what Airbnb later came into being as.
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My Return to Regular Pricing @FineArtAmerica July 2020
It’s been a few months since I started my $1 pricing markup experiment on Fine Art America. It was a worthwhile experiment, where I was hoping to generate more interest in my work in general, plus rack up a few low profit but visibility expanding sales 😊
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Sold My 1st Face Mask, a Paris Mask! @FineArtAmerica!
A quick post to announce & celebrate selling my first face mask! Special thanks to my buyer in Ohio! ❤️
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Happy 4th of July 2020! 🇺🇸
We will surely make it through these times as we have other pandemics, wars, and establishing and keeping our democratic republic ❤️ Below are several sayings I feel go to the core of my feelings about our country, America 💕
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: Bird on Camera! ❤️
Just a very quick update post w/pics Sheila caught of one of her suitors, uh, bird visitors 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: New Bird Bath and Feeder 🐦 😊
Some things are old, some new, some we got, some either our son or youngest girl and the grandson’ve given us, but nature accommodates most things in the wild, and luckily, so far, on our balcony 😊
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